Improvement in preserving railroad-ties



IINITED'-N STATES PATENT` Gerten.;w

BENJAMIN S. FOREMAN, OF`MORRISON, ILLINOIS.

IMPRUVEMENT INI' PRESERVING RAILROAD-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43, I9 I, dated June 21, 1864.

To all 'whom t may concern two inches in diameter and tive inches deep, Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. FOREMAN, ,t as shown at A in the accompanying drawing. ofthe town of Morrison, in the county off In this aperture I put a composition of the Whitesideand State of Illinois, have invented 5 following ingredients and in the following proa new and Improved Mode of Preventing portions, vizz-Threeonnces of' corrosive sub1` Railroad-Ties from Rotting; and I do hereby, i liinate to one pound of common salt. After declare that the following is a full and exact i having filled the hole with this composition, I statement of the material used and descripi insert a plug of wool-lone inch in thickness, tion thereof, reference bein g had to the aeeoml `the grain of the wood lin the plug to run parpanying drawing, and to the letters of referal-lel with the grain of the wood in the tie, and ence thereon. Y i ,p i to be irmly driven in. 'This compound will The nature of my invention consists in prol prevent the tie from rotting and hold the riding` a ailroadtie with an apertureat either spikes, as shown at B in Fig. 2, and hardens end inside of the rail and put therein a eolnthe timber. i position of salt and corrosive sublimate, which I What I claim as my invention, and desire t0 prevents the tie from rotting, holds the spikes I secure by Letters Patent, isin said tie to their proper place, and hardens 5 The application to railroad ties of a compothe wood in said tie. l sition made of the materials and applied as To enable others tonse my invention, I will f and for the purpose herein set forth and dedescribe the composition and themannerof i scribed.4 i Q applying it more fully. Takea railroadtiefi v l B. S. FOREMAN. either laid in the track or otherwise, and at-a i Vitnesses: ...i point sixinches inside of where the iron rests IVI. D. HIGLEY, thereon bore a hole in the upper or face side, ii J. JACKSON. v 

